Rip Caswell’s bronze monuments and memorials are located through the United States and internationally, in community developments, city and public buildings, museums and private residences. Our clients include land developers, architects, designers, public art agencies and private estate owners. For more information, and to commission a monument.
Rip Caswell is well-known in the Pacific Northwest for his bronze sculptures and monuments. Wild animals, religious figures, Native American spirits, and busts of local heroes renew his connection to innocence and simplicity. Interested in art from an early age, Caswell began making animals out of clay as a child then dove into taxidermy. He studied under Bill Lancaster in Beavercreek, Oregon, and they began working together in 1985. As a team, Lancaster and Caswell won every award for taxidermy in the Northwest Regional Taxidermy competition in 1998 and 1999. Caswell’s creative versatility led him to bronze and the lost-wax process of casting in 1992, which allowed him to maintain a high degree of detail enhanced by patina coloring and a descriptive base that placed his animals and figures in nature. His animals are often in resting positions or at the peak of their animalistic character in the wild—they stalk, wander, or nuzzle their mates, the kings and queens of their domain. Caswell extracts the purity of nature and represent his subjects’ souls, be it man or beast.